| Comment Number: | OL-104328 |
| Received: | 11/29/2004 9:49:46 AM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Scott Patten |
| State: | UT |
| Subject: | Trade Regulation Rule on Telemarketing Sales |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 310 |
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Comments:
To whom it may concern. This proposed rule change is a very bad idea. It creates a loophole that will only result in anger, rage and ineffeciency. By making automated telemarketing legal to blocked numbers you force the person paying for a phone line to pay in time and effort to sort useful calls from unwanted solicitations. These campaigns rely on a huge volume of inexpensive calls which result in a very small conversion rate. This means that the burden of taking a huge volume of unwanted calls falls on the consumer. The value of a phone line drops as a result. I think this waste of time and resources should not be allowed. I maintain a phone line for my benefit. I refuse to pay so that solicitors can barrage me with unwanted calls. Certainly this is the eventual result of such a rule change. Please don't allow it. Thank you, Scott Patten